ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,688,266, issued on July 21, was assigned to Maschinenfabrik Rieter AG (Winterthur, Switzerland).

"Operating device for operating textile machines and method for operating textile machines" was invented by Max Schmitt (Zurich, Switzerland), Cornelius Niemeyer (Allensbach, Germany) and Dominic Wettstein (Zurich, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A first operating device for operation of a textile machine includes a basic mode function and an expert mode function for operation of the textile machine by a user. A switching function allows the user to switch between the basic and expert mode functions. A remote transmitting function ...